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Giovanni Larciani

Design for a Part of a Ceiling and a Pediment

18th century
Pen and brown ink, brush with green-brown, yellow, mauve, blue, green, red gray, and red-brown wash, over traces of black chalk on cream laid paper
41.2 × 34.8 cm (16.2 × 13.7 in)

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